A description of the meeting, who was there, action items and the next meeting date.

Note: all minutes are marked “Draft” until official approved by the next committee meeting.

VPA BASKETBALL COMMITTEE
Friday, September 28, 2007
VPA Office

Members Present: Connie Larose, Tom Conte, Judy Reed, Bruce Viens, Amy Molina, Harry Ladue, Bill Murphy, David McGinn, Dan Shepardson, Bob Johnson

Minutes:

- Bruce Viens elected committee chair, Vote Unanimous.

- Motion by Amy, second by Judy, to accept minutes of 2/23/07. Vote - approved unanimously.

- correspondence – request from West Rutland, Poultney and Milton for a waiver of the home “white” uniform requirement. Discussion Motion by Bill, second by Amy, to grant West Rutland, Poultney and Milton a one year waiver of the home “white” uniform rule (2007-2008 season). Vote – approved unanimously. Note – the committee will not entertain this type of request for 2008-2009.

- review of 2006 – 2007 season. All seemed to go well. No major issues noted in regular season or tournament.

- discussion on survey sent to schools (coaches) concerning the format of the tournament game at Barre Auditorium. Of the schools that responded, the majority favored the switch that would move D II and D IV to Monday and Wednesday and D III to Thursday. Also would change alignment of Saturday to D IV, D II and then D III. Motion by Amy, second by Bill, to formally adjust Barre tournament schedule to have D II and D IV compete on Monday and Wednesday and D III on Thursdays for semi-finals. Also implement format change on Saturday so that D IV, then D II and then D III (one year only) would be the order. Vote – approved unanimously. Bob J. will pass on to Activity Standards.

- Rules changes – Dan explained that there were no major changes this year. Most of the changes listed were clarifications of previous rules.

- Discussion on alignment procedures Basketball Committee will use for next Divisional alignment cycle. David M. recommends that core sports be aligned by dividing the number of school by 4 (divisions) after petitions for movement up have been considered. Appeals would then go to the committee for discussion.

Bruce V. will meet with committee chairs from soccer and baseball before ASC meeting on 11/3/07 to see if the sports can come in with a common agreement. Bruce will also contact chair of softball about this also. No further action.

- revised basketball guide. Note that Girl’s go second this year and next year.

- adjourned.